"Annie Get Your Gun (musical) Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by Dorothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926), a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler (1847–1926). The 1946 Broadway production was a hit, and the musical had long runs in both New York (1,147 performances) and London, spawning revivals, a 1950 film version and television versions. Songs that became hits include ""There's No Business Like"
"Annie (musical) Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip ""Little Orphan Annie"", with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre). It spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as national tours, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical's songs ""Tomorrow"" and ""It's the Hard Knock Life"" are among its most popular musical numbers. In 1933, eleven-year-old Annie is in"
"that ""it holds one captivated from start to finish with the brilliance of its color photography, the lavish sets, the huge cast, the colorful costumes, the lilting Berlin tunes and, foremost, the truly wonderful performance given by the dynamic Betty Hutton, as 'Annie Oakley.'"" Richard L. Coe of ""The Washington Post"" called it ""a swell musical—a picture everybody will enjoy,"" adding that ""while Annie is a juicy part, it's hard to think of anyone who could have done it as well as Betty has."" John McCarten of ""The New Yorker"" wrote that it was ""far superior to the usual line"
"of Sitting Bull. The original Broadway production opened to favorable reviews. Critics unanimously praised Ethel Merman's performance as Annie Oakley, though some thought the score and book were not particularly distinguished. John Chapman of the ""Daily News"" declared that the production had ""good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin...[and] the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show"" but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating ""She is a better comedienne than she ever was before"", stating that """"Annie"" is a good, standard, lavish, big musical and I'm sure it will be a huge success--but it isn't the greatest show"
"the role of Mimi Clifton. Quatro has also performed in theatre. In 1986, she appeared as Annie Oakley in a London production of ""Annie Get Your Gun"" and in 1991 she performed the title role in a musical about the life of actress Tallulah Bankhead. Titled ""Tallulah Who?"", this musical was co-written by her and Shirlie Roden, adapted from a book by Willie Rushton. It ran from February 14 to March 9 at Hornchurch, England, where it was billed as ""You'll be amazed how Tallulah did it, and to whom and how often!"" The show received favourable reviews from the"
"a Golden Boot Award in 1994 for her contributions to western cinema. Gail Davis Gail Davis (born Betty Jeanne Grayson, October 5, 1925 – March 15, 1997) was an American actress, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television Western series ""Annie Oakley"". The daughter of a small town physician, Davis was born in a Little Rock, Arkansas, hospital, but was raised in McGehee until her family moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and dancing since childhood. After graduating from Little Rock High School, she studied at the Harcum Junior College for Girls"
"and ""Royal Pains"", and played herself in the series finale of the TV comedy, ""30 Rock"". Alice Ripley Alice Ripley (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and mixed media artist. She is known, in particular, for her various roles on Broadway in musicals, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""Next to Normal"" (2009 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical) and ""Side Show"". She most recently played three roles in the short-lived Broadway musical, ""American Psycho"". Alice Ripley has released albums with her band, RIPLEY, including the single, ""Beautiful Eyes"", released in February 2012. She also performs as"
"Gail Davis Gail Davis (born Betty Jeanne Grayson, October 5, 1925 – March 15, 1997) was an American actress, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television Western series ""Annie Oakley"". The daughter of a small town physician, Davis was born in a Little Rock, Arkansas, hospital, but was raised in McGehee until her family moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and dancing since childhood. After graduating from Little Rock High School, she studied at the Harcum Junior College for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, before completing her education at the University of"
"next project was ""Sadie Thompson"", a Vernon Duke – Howard Dietz musical adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham short story, but Merman found she was unable to retain the lyrics and resigned 12 days after rehearsals began. In August 1945, while in the hospital recovering from the Caesarean birth of her second child, Merman was visited by Dorothy Fields, who proposed she star as Annie Oakley in a musical her brother Herbert and she were writing with Jerome Kern. Merman accepted, but in November, Kern suffered a stroke while in New York City visiting Rodgers and Hammerstein (the producers of"
"Annie Oakley Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Her amazing talent first came to light when at age 15 she won a shooting match against traveling-show marksman Frank E. Butler, whom she later married. The couple joined ""Buffalo Bill's Wild West"" show a few years later. Oakley became a renowned international star, performing before royalty and heads of state. Oakley also was variously known as ""Miss Annie Oakley"", ""Little Sure Shot"", ""Little Miss Sure Shot"", ""Watanya Cicilla"", ""Phoebe Anne Oakley"", ""Mrs. Annie Oakley"", ""Mrs. Annie Butler"","
"Annie Oakley (1935 film) Annie Oakley is a 1935 American biographical film directed by George Stevens and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, and Moroni Olsen. The film is based on the life of Annie Oakley. In late 1800s Ohio, a young woman from the backwoods, Annie Oakley, delivers six dozen quail she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker, the ""greatest shot in the whole world"". Toby is particular about what he eats and"
"G. William Oakley G. William ""Bill"" Oakley, Jr. (March 19, 1937 – October 30, 2010) was a theatrical producer-director-actor and seminal figure in the revival of early American theater, melodrama and vaudeville with theaters in Colorado and Missouri. Dubbed ""Barnum of the Buttes"" by ""The Denver Post"", Oakley is best known for G. William Oakley's Heritage Square Opera House ""Nostalgic Theater"" adaptations of such classic melodrama as ""The Drunkard"", ""The Streets of New York"", and """", literary works such as ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", ""Frankenstein"", and ""Sherlock Holmes"", and original works including ""Call of the Yukon"". In his productions,"
"well-received movie version of the musical. Although MGM purchased the rights to the film version with an announced intention of starring legendary singer-actress Judy Garland as Annie, early work on the film was plagued with difficulties, some attributed to Garland's health. Garland was fired and replaced by the brassier, blonde Betty Hutton. In 1957, a production starring Mary Martin as Annie and John Raitt as Frank Butler was broadcast on NBC. In 1967, the Lincoln Center production described above, starring Ethel Merman and Bruce Yarnell, was broadcast on NBC. The Mary Martin version has been re-broadcast sporadically over the years,"
"at $1.5 million, with $600,000 paying for the score and the book. Betty Hutton, played Annie Oakley, with Howard Keel (making his American film debut) as Frank Butler and Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate. Louis Calhern played Buffalo Bill, replacing Frank Morgan, who died in 1949. Judy Garland, MGM's biggest musical comedy star, was originally cast as Annie Oakley. She recorded all her songs for the soundtrack and worked for two months under the direction of Busby Berkeley and dance director Robert Alton. Berkeley and Garland had worked together previously in the late 1930s and early 1940s in a successful"
"joined the music program at Foss videregående skole in Oslo 1991. She got the main role of Sonja in the play ""Reisen til Julestjernen"" at the Nationaltheatret in Oslo 1993, becoming the youngest Sonia ever at the Nationaltheatret. She continued to play the role in 1994, before starting studies in music pedagogy and singing at Norges Musikkhøgskole in 1995. She applied for Artisten in Göteborg (""Högskolan för Teater, Opera och Musikal""), and earned a bachelor there in 2001. Before ending her studies at Artisten, she got the role as ""Annie Oakley"" in the musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"" at Riksteatret,"
"series of backstage musicals teaming her with fellow juvenile star Mickey Rooney. Berkeley had been fired from the Garland/Rooney musical ""Girl Crazy"" in 1943 due to personality clashes with musical director Roger Edens and for driving Garland very hard during the filming of one musical number. On ""Annie Get Your Gun"", producer Arthur Freed felt Berkeley was the right man to capture the spectacle needed. But once again, Berkeley was severe with Garland. Unfortunately, Garland was suffering from overwork and exhaustion, the dissolution of her marriage to director Vincente Minnelli, and an addiction to prescription medication. She was in no"
"extra week added due to popular demand.The production featured new arrangements by Jason Carr for a band consisting four pianos. London's Guardian newspaper awarded the show 5 stars, claiming that ""Richard Jones's brilliant production offers the wittiest musical staging London has seen in years."" A concert staging of the original version of ""Annie Get Your Gun"" took place at the Ravinia Festival, Chicago from August 13–15, 2010 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Annie Oakley's birth. Directed by Lonny Price, the concert starred Patti LuPone as Annie, Patrick Cassidy as Frank and George Hearn as Buffalo Bill. The concert received"
"Alice Ripley Alice Ripley (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and mixed media artist. She is known, in particular, for her various roles on Broadway in musicals, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ""Next to Normal"" (2009 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical) and ""Side Show"". She most recently played three roles in the short-lived Broadway musical, ""American Psycho"". Alice Ripley has released albums with her band, RIPLEY, including the single, ""Beautiful Eyes"", released in February 2012. She also performs as a solo artist, while in February 2011 she released ""Alice Ripley Daily Practice, Volume 1"", a"
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly ""Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"" is a song from the 1946 musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"", written by Irving Berlin. The song was introduced by Ethel Merman in the original production of the musical. Other singers to have recorded the song include Betty Hutton, Judy Garland, Bernadette Peters, Suzi Quatro, The DeMarco Sisters, and Dinah Shore. In the song Annie Oakley, her brother (Little Jake), sisters (Minnie, Jessie, and Nellie), and the owner of the Wilson Hotel (Foster Wilson) sing jokingly about how the Oakley family and their community live happy lives despite their lack of education"
"which aired as ""Anne of Avonlea"" on the Disney Channel in the United States, and also included material from ""Anne of the Island"" and ""Anne of Windy Poplars"". This book along with ""Anne of the Island"" formed the basis of the musical ""Anne & Gilbert"". Anne of Avonlea Anne of Avonlea is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909. Following ""Anne of Green Gables"" (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches"
"but now as a librettist, first with Arthur Schwartz on ""Stars In Your Eyes"". (They reteamed in 1951 for ""A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"".) In the 1940s, she teamed up with her brother Herbert Fields, with whom she wrote the books for three Cole Porter shows, ""Let's Face It!"", ""Something for the Boys"", and ""Mexican Hayride"". In 1946, Fields approached Oscar Hammerstein II with her idea for a new musical based on the life of famous female sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Hammerstein liked the idea and agreed to produce the show. Kern and Fields were signed on to write the songs"
"and Garden (HGTV), Kaiser Permanente Corporation, and Parkplace Corporation, Denver. She has participated in many national shows and has received numerous honors and awards. G. William Oakley G. William ""Bill"" Oakley, Jr. (March 19, 1937 – October 30, 2010) was a theatrical producer-director-actor and seminal figure in the revival of early American theater, melodrama and vaudeville with theaters in Colorado and Missouri. Dubbed ""Barnum of the Buttes"" by ""The Denver Post"", Oakley is best known for G. William Oakley's Heritage Square Opera House ""Nostalgic Theater"" adaptations of such classic melodrama as ""The Drunkard"", ""The Streets of New York"", and """","
"Butler in a 1966 Lincoln Center revival, with Ethel Merman again as Annie Oakley. Tom Wopat played the role of Butler in the 1999 Broadway revival. In 1957, a television production starring Mary Martin and John Raitt was broadcast on NBC. Frank E. Butler Francis E. Butler (January 30, 1847 (baptized)November 21, 1926) was an Irish American marksman who performed in Wild West variety shows. He was married to sharpshooter Annie Oakley, and while his birth date is listed on his and Oakley's U.S. passport application as February 25, 1852, the obituary for Butler posted by the Associated Press in"
"of the musical plays. She herself once explained that she did not enjoy making films because she did not have the connection with an audience that she had in live performances. The closest that she ever came to preserving her stage performances was her famous television appearances as ""Peter Pan"". The Broadway production from 1954 was subsequently performed on NBC television in RCA's compatible color in 1955, 1956, and 1960. Martin also preserved her 1957 stage performance as Annie Oakley in ""Annie Get Your Gun"" when NBC television broadcast the production live that year. While Martin did not enjoy making"
"the Helen Hayes Award in 1989 for her 1988 performance in ""Side By Side By Sondheim"" at the Olney Theatre in Washington. In September 1991, she presented her one-woman show ""Doin What Comes Naturally"", at the Shaw Theatre in London. She has lived in London since 1992 when she was invited to play Annie Oakley in Irving Berlin's musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"". On August 1, 2009, she was a featured soloist in the ""BBC Proms 2009: a Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals"" at the Royal Albert Hall. On that evening she performed a number of songs including: ""The"
"Annie Oakley (TV series) Annie Oakley is an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of the famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Featuring actress Gail Davis in the title role, the weekly program ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication. A total of 81 black-and-white episodes were produced, with each installment running 25 minutes in length. ABC aired daytime reruns of the series on Saturdays and Sundays from 1959 to 1960 and then again from 1964 to 1965. The show starred Gail Davis as Annie Oakley, with Brad Johnson in the role of Deputy Sheriff Lofty Craig and"
"by catering to German audiences. From 1964 onwards Borg performed in several variety shows with Hagge Geigert in Uddevalla and Gothenburg, and a sojourn at Folkan with Kar de Mumma. In the 1970s, she moved to Arvidsjaur with her new husband, policeman Stig Salomonsson, and thereafter was most active as an actress, most often for ""Riksteatern"". She played in the musical ""Call Me Madam"" in 1967, and gave a celebrated performance as Annie Oakley in the musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"" in 1973. Henceforth she toured with ""Riksteatern"" in performances of ""Christina Alexandra"", ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Ramel riket runt"","
"(Annie and Barmaid), Raymond Stough (Sam Bradbury), Robin Wilson (Madame Rochais and Miss Lee), and Kevin Wynn (Photographer, Young Brad and Old Joe). Adam (musical) Adam is a musical with a book by June Tansey, lyrics and music by Richard Ahlert, based on the life of the controversial politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr.. The story follows the life of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and his wife (in real life the writers combined his first two wives Isabel Washington and Hazel Scott). The show premiered in New York City at Harry DeJur Henry Street Settlement Playhouse. The show was directed by"
"in 1876. An 1880 U.S. Federal Census record shows Saunders as married. Sources mentioning Butler's first wife as Elizabeth are inaccurate; Elizabeth was his granddaughter, her father being Edward F. Butler. Throughout Oakley's show-business career, the public was often led to believe that she was five to six years younger than she was. The later marriage date would have better supported her fictional age. Annie and Frank Butler lived in Cincinnati for a time. Oakley, the stage name she adopted when she and Frank began performing together, is believed to have been taken from the city's neighborhood of Oakley, where"
"Helen Oakley Dance Helen Margaret Oakley Dance, née Oakley (February 15, 1913 – May 27, 2001) was a jazz journalist, producer, historian, and musician. She is perhaps best known for production and for her biography of T-Bone Walker. She was married to critic Stanley Dance for over 50 years. Born into a wealthy Canadian family in Toronto, Ontario, she capped-off her ""coming out"" as a debutante by attending a Duke Ellington concert . A jazz enthusiast from an early age, she made efforts to become a singer, however had more success as a journalist and producer. Her first act of"
"Oakley was a champion of improvisation and audience participation. His productions also featured ""vaudeville olio"" variety numbers showcasing the musical and comedic talents of his repertory company interspersing jokes with modern-day spoofs ranging from Shakespeare's ""Romeo and Juliet"" as houseflies to Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"". Oakley's Heritage Square Opera House in Golden, Colorado (1971–1988) and the historic Goldenrod Showboat at Laclede's Landing on the St. Louis Mississippi waterfront (1975–1985) became popular icons for his brand of theater. Oakley was born March 19, 1937 in Cherokee, Oklahoma to Eula Mae Hutson Oakley and George William Oakley Sr., an electrical engineer, and was"
"and on 27 December 2010, McKenney guest co-hosted ""The Morning Show"" alongside Kylie Gillies, while regular male presenter Larry Emdur was on holidays. In 2011 McKenney portrayed Lord Evelyn Oakley in a limited showing of ""Anything Goes"" in Melbourne, alongside Amanda Harrison. In 2012, he played the role of Rooster in the hit musical ""Annie"" alongside Anthony Warlow, Nancye Hayes and Alan Jones. McKenney plays Teen Angel in the 2013-2014 Australian National Touring Company production of the hit musical ""Grease"", starring alongside Bert Newton, John Paul Young, Rob Mills, and Gretel Scarlett. Although he is on stage for less than"
"Merman's junior, cast as Annie Oakley's loyal husband and manager, Frank E. Butler. Merman and Berlin reunited for ""Call Me Madam"" in 1950, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and she went on to star in the 1953 screen adaptation, as well, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance. The following year, she appeared as the matriarch of the singing and dancing Donahue family in ""There's No Business Like Show Business"", a film with a Berlin score. Merman returned"